Sir-I see that The Listener is giving hospitality to a controversy on "the dictatorship of the proletariat,’ with citations from Lenin and other. later writers. Some of your readers may be interested in the following relevant passage from a recent American work, Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power, by Paul Blanshard (lately reviewed in your paper): When the Bolsheviks wanted to justify the continuing dictatorship of a single political party, they did not admit that they were twisting or perverting socialism. They simply loaded down one phrase of Karl Marx"the dictatorship of the proletariat’’-with the whole weight of their lop-sided policy, and made that phrase bear the burden of a permanent authoritarian system of power. . . . Actually, Karl Marx used the phrase, "dictatorship of the proletariat," only once in his whole writings, and only by overemphasis and distortion can anyone find in his works a detailed justification for continuing dictatorship. In Communist» propaganda, however, a continuing dictatorship is hailed as "applied Marxism."
G.
G.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 5
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